All language subtitles for McMillion$.S01E02.WEB-DL.XviD.B4ND1T69

From 1989 to 2001, there were almost no
legitimate winners in the McDonald's

Monopoly game.

I mean, how crazy bullshit is that?

McDonald's makes French fries and apple
pies.

They don't make marketing.

Simon Marketing actually produced and
came up with a Monopoly game.

The FBI told us the game pieces are
being stolen.

And the person who's controlling this is
Uncle Jerry.

We had this one shot.

I wanted to burn down the criminal
enterprise.

We were on the wiretaps to find out the
depths of this scheme.

We did an analysis of past winners'
phone records. All these phone calls

Jerome Jacobson, also known as Jerry
Jacobson, head of security for Simon

Marketing.

Hey, here's a man who looks like he has
something to say.

Are we all set, Ronnie?

Hey, careful.

Looks like you've got flubber shoes on,
too, today.

A wonderful, anonymous donor mailed

a Monopoly game piece.

And right here in the middle of it was a
little winning ticket of one

million dollars.

Somebody won a $1 million Monopoly game
at McDonald's, and God bless them,

decided to send that money to the
children of St. Jude.

Well, this is a great day.

We at McDonald's have a game going,
which a person won a game piece in Texas

mailed it to St. Jude's anonymously, and
McDonald's worked out a way to pay the

game piece, even though it really can't
be transferred.

It's just a wonderful Christmas story
that someone would give.

That way, anonymously, not won any
recognition for the children at St.

The McDonald's Monopoly game went back
to 1987, and so we

didn't know how long the contest was
fixed.

St. Jude's was listed as a winner, which
was certainly an anomaly.

We didn't know if this was part of this
conspiracy.

We didn't know how Jerry Jacobson was
involved in this fraud scheme.

Of course, he was Uncle Jerry.

I mean, at first you just think it's an
alias name, but at least it was at least

half of the name.

Hey, help me, Fred, will you? Oh, this
is heavy.

Odds of finding the winning piece were
one in more than 206 million.

Odds of someone giving it away, heaven
only knows.

My name is Marvin Braun. I live in
Miami, Florida.

Jerry Jacobson is my stepbrother. Yes,
he is my stepbrother.

And did that make you close? Yeah, I
mean, we grew up as, I don't think

-brothers, but we grew up close.

We're only a week apart in age.

His dream of life was always becoming an
FBI agent.

It never worked out. But it's funny.
It's a funny story.

If you said to me to describe this
story, I would say, don't believe it,

it's true.

Don't believe it.

It's just weird. It's just weird how it
happened.

He had discussed about the gang pieces
one time.

I think it was 1989, and we had
discussed.

How, you know, he would be able to
possibly get a $25 ,000 game piece and,

you know, if we could do something with
it, you know, whatever.

A month later, six weeks later, I don't
remember, he showed up with a piece.

And he says, cash it in.

There was an 800 number.

to uh call which i did and they gave me
instructions i went to the post office i

registered it whatever the words are at
the post office and everything else and

i sent it in i think i was the first
person

to turn the ticket in he knew i knew i
um i'd keep my mouth shut i

guess that's the right way of saying it
he trusted me with it yeah did he tell

you how he did it No.

No.

So we were looking into Simon
Marketing's Jerry Jacobson.

Once we got the Title III surveillance
listening to phone call.

We had him on the wire all day, all
night.

So we had thought, hey, this may be the
main guy. So then we started focusing

more on trying to figure out who he was.

After really digging into this Jerome
Jacobson background, we discovered,

other things, that he had been a police
officer in Hollywood, Florida.

To become a police officer, you have to
be a level -headed individual.

Honesty and trustworthiness is
paramount.

Jerry Jacobson was a patrolman, and he
came to me in the parking lot one

morning. At that time, I was
investigating the death of a newborn

We had no leads at all.

And Jerry told me that he had some
psychic friends.

that read about the case and that they
were willing to assist.

My reaction was I was grateful, and I
did take him up on the offer.

I don't know that there's anything wrong
having psychics as friends.

I thought that was pretty wonderful.

I met Jerry at Hollywood Police
Department.

We both were on the same squad, and we
started about the same time.

And one day he showed up at my front
door to inform me that my boyfriend was

cheating on me.

So that's how I met Jerry.

We dated off and on, and there were some

good times and some bad times, but we
got married in Tennessee.

I think it was 81.

And Jerry became my stepfather to my
son.

This

big,

long silence isn't going to be in there,
is it?

One day, he started to shave, and he
couldn't reach all the way up to shave.

It was difficult, and it was getting
more difficult every time he tried to

By noon, he couldn't lift his arms.

He couldn't lift his arms, period.

So I took him to the hospital, and they
ran the test for multiple

sclerosis.

Guillain -Barre and a couple of other
things, and he had the Guillain -Barre.

He says he's got MS, but technically it
was

Guillain -Barre, and I took leave from
my work and spent time at the hospital

with him because his mother was going to
put him in a nursing home.

I gave him 15 minutes a day to feel
sorry for himself.

And after that 15 minutes, we're going
to work.

Because I felt like if we kept working,
maybe we could stay ahead of the

paralysis.

So I fed him and gave him showers and
walked him up and down the hall and all

that stuff.

After six or eight months, he finally
turned around before it got to it.

respiratory system it was getting there
but it didn't quite take over so and

then the next day after the next couple
of days it stabilized and then started

turning around a little bit there's
always a question why somebody leaves

a law enforcement career early many
times there's a good reason but but

always a question it's not typical

And in his case, we learned that he had
a health condition or an accident that

had him go out, I guess, on a
disability.

He moved to Atlanta because there was a
doctor in Atlanta or a hospital that

dealt with nothing but MS.

I think the MS really proved his life
completely because I think he always

wanted to be in law enforcement and
having the MS completely changed his

We moved to Atlanta together.

I got a job shortly after we came here
in security.

He started getting better.

And at that point, he wanted to go back
to work.

Simon Marketing offered him a job
working security for the Monopoly

We, as the FBI, could not and logically
would not march into Simon

Marketing and start asking questions
about Jerry and that process.

Generally, when the FBI starts asking
questions, people get a little spun up

wonder really why.

We were working hand -in -hand with
McDonald's, just trying to figure out

how much.

They knew about Simon Marketing.

Surprisingly, McDonald's didn't know
much about the process that Simon

went through with their promotional
games.

I wasn't familiar with Simon Marketing
at all until the investigation began.

After that meeting with the FBI, I
realized that I needed to learn a little

more about Simon Marketing and the
promotion, so I set up a meeting with

Marketing under the guise of...

trying to learn how the security
procedures were in place?

We were able to enlist McDonald's to do
these inquiries on our behalf, but I

think also on their behalf, too.

Did you tell them at that point that
Jerome Jenkinson was a person of

Yeah, yeah, no, we would have not told
McDonald's, because if we're wrong,

sullied somebody's reputation for no
good reason.

I don't know how much he was making at
Simon.

His wife was working.

I don't know if he needed the money.

No, I think he said he has a contact to
get them or something.

I think it was contact.

It was not him. It was not him.

It was not him.

Someone else?

He gave me the idea it was not him
stealing the tickets, that he had to

Hal to get the tickets.

I was under the impression Jerry was a
security for it. In other words, that

another person was taking the tickets or
whatever. I wasn't sure. I thought

Jerry was security.

When I met with Simon Marketing, we went
through the security procedures and the

procedures at the printing press. They
actually had a very thorough and

comprehensive operation for ensuring the
security and integrity of our game

pieces. So I was very pleased with what
I saw.

McDonald's reports that at the facility
there was incredibly secure and that

this idea that...

things are loose or that they could walk
right out of there was almost

impossible, highly, highly, highly
unlikely.

The obvious question was how this whole
process worked, how were game pieces

printed, distributed.

Simon Marketing had these game pieces
made just north of Atlanta by

a secure printing business.

My name is Jack Sisk. I actually was
working in security at Dittler for

15 years, actually.

My name is Perry Pelock, and I was the
bindery supervisor.

My name is Doyle Grant, and I was the
shipping clerk.

My name is Gilbin Peoples, and I was the
parts clerk in the maintenance

department.

Dittler Brothers Printing was a very
secure printing company, and that's how

got into the lottery business and into
scratch -off.

And I think that's one of the reasons
that we got the U .S. postage stamp job

because the federal government said,
hey, this place is really secure because

got that and it went real well.

And then it grew from there, you know,
three or four years and McDonald's,

millions and millions of dollars to pay
to print all this stuff.

I was the director of security for
Dittler Brothers between 1987 and 2000.

And I worked with Jerry when they were
running Monopoly.

because Simon and Dittler were real
close.

We had people in Dittler Brothers 24
hours.

The Dittler Brothers facility was very
secure.

You had to go through a guard shack to
get into the facility. You had to sign

when you got into the facility.

Then you had to go through another guard
to get into the room where the state

lotteries were being produced along with
our game pieces.

When Monopoly was running, it would just
about take everything in the plant

running. It would get so big.

That was our large customer by a long
shot.

You're talking hundreds of millions of
game pieces, you know.

When we did press runs of winners, we
pretty much surrounded the press.

They had alarm systems. They had
cameras. The gate was opened, and it

Alarm would go off.

We had a big ball when we had winners
in.

There were two locks.

It's almost like, you know, back in the
Cold War, you'd have two people in a

missile silo, and it takes two.

Jerry was in there for Simon to make
sure that Dittler brothers were doing

jobs. Jerry would stand behind and look
over their shoulder and get their

combination.

Then he would raise, holy hell, because
we allowed him to do that.

All the game pieces that were produced
by Dittler Brothers were loaded on

trucks. Security would actually
physically lock the back of the truck.

Once that truck left, we normally would
get on an airplane, fly to that city,

and meet the truck the next morning to
unlock it, break the seal, verify what

was loaded.

My name is Brian Littrell. I work
security, flash quality control for the

that McDonald's usually ran.

We would bring the labels out, free
drinks, free fries, and the two pieces

assemble together, the label on top of
the cup.

The higher -level winners was done by a
completely different, more secure

process. I would usually get a call
saying that Jerry was going to be coming

with an independent auditor.

Dittler security has to be there.

Simon has to be there, the auditor has
to be there, and the customer service

has to be there.

And they all witnessed the winner run.

The auditor would unlock the suitcase.
There was an envelope inside with

signatures across the seal to make sure
that it was still the same contents as

to when it was packaged. And inside
there, there would be a certain number

seeds. This is what a seed would look
like, one of which was a high -level

winner, the rest were common.

And then I would insert them in various
production lines.

No one knew, and no one was supposed to
know, where the high -level winner was.

You go into the McDonald's, you open up
the game piece, and maybe you're an

instant million -dollar winner.

I won!

And so when these game pieces got to the
Simon Marketing Redemption Center and

it goes through the process of, do we
have a real winner?

They literally would be opened by a
person with gloves. These are all being

recorded.

And there would always be an error made
in the winning game piece. Say, on one

corner, there's a little chip out of the
word.

We also write on the Million Dollar
Winner a little code on there with a

light pen.

You can't see.

So if you show up with a piece that
doesn't have the code on it, you're

get caught real soon.

We were always a little bit overboard.

But, yeah, we protected McDonald's, and
I think that's a major reason they used

us. And, of course, Jerry was in there
sort of telling them how it needed to be

built.

How would you describe Jerry when you
were working with him?

Everybody liked Jerry. I mean, everybody
in the office liked Jerry.

He wasn't real flashy.

We always had Thanksgiving. Everybody
sort of brought in a potluck at

Thanksgiving. And Jerry always brought
in ribs.

And his ribs were delicious.

They would just fall off the bone.

Yes, everybody looked forward to his
ribs.

He didn't seem to be big -headed at all.

And he was always very generous. If he
made ribs for himself, he would make

for the whole office.

Jerry was a generous fellow.

We got divorced, and even when he was
married again and I needed something, he

would be right there.

There's nothing stingy about him at all.

After we got divorced, it was like...

Even though he was the head of security
for Simon, he still worked under my

guidelines and Dittler Brothers.

I told him if he stole anything, I'd
kill him.

When you got your check, what was it
like?

Exciting. Well, I'm not going to lie, it
was exciting and everything else. And,

you know, I deposited it and we split
it.

Down the road, he came to me and he said
that he could do bigger pieces.

I had not cashed in anything but a $25
,000 ticket, and I didn't want any parts

of them.

At that time...

I was going to New York like every
Tuesday morning and coming home every

Wednesday night. I was buying maternity
clothes in New York for my maternity

shop.

So I approached two people who were
manufacturers in New York that I dealt

for many, many, many years. And I
approached them if they would be

possibly doing a deal with Jerry.

Who were those two people? I'd rather
not mention names.

No, I'm pretty sure. Well, maybe his
nieces and nephews.

No, I'd never heard anybody refer to him
as Uncle Jerry.

For a while, the question was, well, who
is Uncle Jerry?

Oh, well, there's a Jerry Jacobson
working at Simon.

That must be Uncle Jerry.

But there was always this inference
maybe that Uncle Jerry was somehow

to organized crime, Italian organized
crime, because the uncle connotation

this kind of almost like a godfather
-ish sort of moniker.

Then we found out that there was another
Jerry involved in this named

Jerry Columbo.

People everywhere are winning big,
playing the Monopoly game at McDonald's.

Jerry Colombo won a Dodge Viper, and
there are two $1 million prizes left.

My name is Frank Colombo. I am brother
of Jerry, Gennaro Colombo. And I'm

Heather Colombo, and I am Frank
Colombo's wife.

I really wanted him to keep the car.

You know, I was, you know, a young guy.
I'm like, hey, a Dodge Viper, I mean,

pretty damn cool. Can I borrow it?

But it was too small. I mean, he was a
big guy.

But it was kind of funny because all of
my friends would call me, hey, your

brother won the car.

Oh, my God. And I'm sitting there
laughing in the back of my head going,

okay, he won the car, sure.

It was just amusing that people believed
it.

It worked.

I'm Robin Colombo.

My husband is Jerry Colombo, Genaro
Colombo.

He was part of the Colombo crime family.

That commercial, that almost cost him
his life because he wasn't supposed to

a commercial.

And what was Jerry thinking to be in an
actual national TV commercial?

Because he's a ham.

He was even going to be in a movie with
Jackie Chan, as a matter of fact.

I said, what?

That doesn't even sound right.

You, a big -ass Sicilian, and a China
man, and a Western.

I said, oh, my God.

And it was that same noon, night,
whatever it is.

It was that.

Mom!

Come get this dog out of here.

The Sicilian culture,

of course, it's family first, no matter
what.

But when I met her, I didn't want her to
know my last name because I want her to

know me and not my family.

As a matter of fact, for the first three
to four months, I didn't even know his

name. He would go by a completely
different name and only did I.

I see a bracelet on his wrist one day,
and I questioned him on the name that

said Frank C, when this is entirely
different from the name that he gave me.

Yes, I went by Tony Iannotti.

I kind of keep that in the background.
You know, not too many people know who

family is until now.

Five families have run New York's
Italian -American Mafia. The names are

familiar. Bonanno, Gambino, Genovese,
Lucchese, and Columbo.

Police in Brooklyn pulled a man's body
out of the water duct taped inside a

tarp. Police say someone also tied a
cinder block to the victim's ankle.

My name is Joe Colombo. I should be
treated the same as anybody else.

Joe Colombo, real estate broker, mafia
boss, and one of the biggest con men in

the history of organized crime.

What was your reaction when you learned
that the shooting had occurred at the

Colombo's? I just heard, like, shots,
about eight shots, and I didn't think

were shots. I thought they were
firecrackers. His high profile caused

bosses to okay his murder, the man some
called an underworld boss.

My brother wasn't the normal, you know,
when you watch The Sopranos, you know,

and he's the guy's talking to him, you
know, all about, hey, forget about it,

and all this kind of nonsense.

Forget about it. Forget about it. Now
forget about it.

Forget about it.

That's the movies.

Now, did he do things like that?

Absolutely.

But he did it with humor.

More like, I guess if you got Marlon
Brando and Joe Pesci and put them

you'd probably end up with my brother.

You know?

That's pretty much it.

Now that I think about this, if you got
Al Capone and Rodney Dangerfield and

mashed them together, You got my
brother.

I think that's a good analogy.

The first time I met Jerry, we looked at
each other, and it was like the

chemistry between us was crazy.

Like, you know, cartoon, you know,
everything's like boom, boom.

I was having a long -distance
relationship with a federal agent.

who was not that fun.

And Jury was fun, so I chose him.

My father was military and strict, very
strict.

So, yeah, they didn't go so well, but
thank you.

I rebelled.

We were married in Panama City, Florida.

It wasn't as extravagant as you would
think because I was pregnant.

So no Catholic wedding.

My brother Jerry had his hand in a lot
of different avenues.

He had some bookying things that he was
doing with bookies and what have you.

He was in charge of security at the Taj
Mahal for a few years.

That was the old Trump Taj Mahal.

He would gamble, and he would win a lot.
I don't know if that was rigged as

well, possibly.

Everything's rigged in life. Nothing
anymore. Yeah.

He was always looking at a way to make
some good, easy money.

You know we had the little gray M &M as
well.

Did you know that?

Okay, I smoke a half a door in a night.
I need to relax.

I need to put on something funny.

And just let me chill.

Well, when I would wake up in the middle
of the night, I had to have something

sweet. So I had Reese's Cups down in the
kitchen, right?

So he had to let me know there was a
gray M &M wrapped in aluminum foil.

And he told me, don't touch it.

The rules say if you find a gray
imposter M &M's, the winning bag could

$1 million.

And then...

He says, you're also going to win a
publisher's clearinghouse.

When they come to your door, knock.

You have won a million dollars from
publisher's clearinghouse. I can't

it. This is the truth.

Real people really win the publisher's
clearinghouse sweepstakes.

They're probably going to say, ah,
bullshit, you know, all that. But I'm

telling you what my husband told me.

Jerry wanted something big.

He kept threatening, you know, I'm going
to work for my uncles up in New York.

You know, I'm like.

Well, you know what? I think it's time.

You know, you can spend too much time
with somebody, and you don't play golf.

And, I mean, the only golf club he had
was about this big, and that was, well.

So he went up north, and he got with
Uncle Dominic, who was the godfather.

So Uncle Dominic, was he an actual? No,
they call that out of respect.

He wasn't an actual uncle.

But he loved my husband because my
husband was old school, full -blooded

Sicilian.

He was hooking him up with everything.

My name's Jennifer Etheridge.

Robin Colombo is my mother.

Jerry Colombo is my stepfather.

You couldn't help not to like him. And
especially with, you know, his...

career that he was into um it was
definitely intriguing at the time you

would show me duffel bags of money and
whip it out here you go go buy you

something nice you know and then i'd say
when i was about 15 16 years old that's

when jerry got into the monopoly thing
and then that definitely you know it was

that was a big deal he had promised me
um a million dollar ticket whenever i

turned 18.

because nobody could have the same last
name. And since my last name was

Etheridge, you know, I was going to be
able to win a million -dollar ticket.

I was like, oh, heck yeah, absolutely.

Your brother, how did he get introduced
to this whole situation?

With the Monopoly situation, Uncle
Dominic worked for family members in the

York division and a mutual friend of
his.

kind of said hey i got this guy that's
doing this and this might be interested

and so forth and so on and uh that was
jerome from simon marketing uh

he was getting the tickets do you think
that uncle

dominic has found jerry jacobson like
that this was something that uncle

dominic initiated i don't know it could
have been i think

Jerome possibly started it on his own in
the beginning, and then people got wind

of what he was doing, and then they
said, hey, let's see if we can use this

an avenue to expand it.

And I believe that was brought to my
brother's attention, like, hey, there's

this guy, he's doing this, and let's see
if we can expand the horizon.

But then Jerry, my Jerry, received a
phone call that Uncle Dominic died.

How did that happen?

You know, you don't really talk about
that.

So anyway, my Jerry and Jerry Jacobson
became partners on the

monopoly team.

To Jerry.

Working any case is like a big puzzle.
You start with a little piece.

And you've got to try to vet whether
that is legitimate, whether it has any

merit to it. The undercover portion with
Michael Hoover went beyond

expectations.

We had Michael Hoover calling A .J.
Glum.

We suspected Glum was a recruiter, and
he probably didn't just recruit Hoover.

Is there a connection to Uncle Jerry?

And so we started looking into him and
then expanded into other phone lines.

We had coverage on many lines, including
Jerry Jacobson, A .J. Glum, and a

number of the winners.

The spider web of all, like, we didn't
know how big this was. We had this Uncle

Jerry. Everything was very general,
nebulous.

So inside the wire room, people sitting
there getting ready to listen, and

nothing happens.

You put all this effort into it, and
nothing happens.

You're spending your weekend doing that.

Unfortunately, in these conversations on
the wire, the winners mostly had

innocuous conversations that have
nothing to do with the crime.

So we start coming up with, all right,
how do we get past winners to recount

how they allegedly won these pieces?

I said, look.

We can do this.

Why don't we bring all these past
winners to Vegas? I just did Vegas.

I said.

I don't know why I picked Vegas.
Probably because it's the fun meter

which is the immediate no, you know.

But I said, hey, hear me out.

Let's do a reunion of all these past
winners.

Let's bring all these people together.
Tell us.

Because we didn't know their stories.
Tell us.

how they won these and what they did
with it, that kind of thing. Because,

know, McDonald's has big pockets. They
get some all -expenses -paid trips to

Vegas, balloons falling in the confetti,
and they love that shit.

And, you know, the questions were,
Matthews, where are you going to do

Embassy Suites.

Take the whole floor, rope everything
off, right? Just in case stupid shows up

and you have them all lined up in these
rooms and just arrest them all at the

same time, right?

Great thing.

No.

No way in hell.

No, Doug.

How much is that going to cost us?

We did have some budgets to deal with. I
can't remember what it was. It was

like, get him out of here, whatever it
was.

I can't believe you said that.

Doug is one of the hardest working
agents I've ever met in my life.

Very creative.

He'll do anything. He'll try anything.

And he can talk forever.

He is relentless.

This idea of, quote -unquote, hosting a
reunion of past winners in Las Vegas

seemed so outlandish up front. And then
we realized, wait a minute, if you're

not going to follow through with it, you
can promise some pretty elaborate

things. Everybody likes to go to Vegas.
So in preparation for that wonderful

conference that we were going to have,
all expense paid.

We could contact these winners, go out
and film them to capture their so

story, and then the carrot was you get
this trip to Vegas.

Rick was freaked out about it, but I
wasn't. Remember, I'm the guy that's

I know this is going to work because I
know it is, right? It's all shamrock,

baby, shamrock.

I was the direct contact with the
winners, so I could legitimize all of

information.

It was all recorded, and, you know, it
was 17 years ago, so it was a big tape

recorder that I carried around in a
black McDonald's briefcase. I even

it to my friend's wedding in Jackson
Hole because, you know, I had to be able

tape the calls whenever they came. If,
like, I had to flip the tape, I'd be

like, can I put you on hold for a
second? You know, and then I'd flip the

and then put them back on.

Amy would call him up.

and say, hey, look, we're putting
together this media release of previous

winners, how they won it, what they did
with it, some of their story that hasn't

been really told.

We'll come to you, or you can come to
us, wherever we were going to do it,

whatever hotel that you want.

Nobody said no to that.

Most everybody was like, tell me when
we're going to Vegas.

Obviously, we were not going to do a
reunion, but to the winners, we told

we're planning this big reunion, and we
started to get them actually excited to

be going to Las Vegas.

That was kind of fundamental that it was
a bit of a ruse. We didn't make

reservations in Las Vegas.

I think the pitch was, you know, we're
going to put your story up on the big

screen and, you know, over a dinner and
everybody's going to clap. And are you

interested in the reunion of winners?
And of course they are.

Well, locking them into a story on
camera takes a B minus case and makes

know, an A plus case.

My name is Doug Astrologa. I'm an FBI
agent, and I was the lighting guy for

Shamrock production in the McDonald's
case.

Oh, so this is a little, yeah, I
remember this.

Doug Astrologa was a relatively young
agent, you know, real,

real enthusiastic, charismatic guy. When
I came out of Quantico, I wanted to do

something exciting.

Originally, I had stuck him with the
admin agent on this Title III, which is,

all the jobs, probably the most
thankless. I mean, it really is a brutal

but there's a reward process that
happens.

So in Doug's case, we let him work on
the undercover with Doug Matthews, the

quote -unquote lighting guy.

I had no idea what I was doing. I was
just using this light meter and pressing

something on this going, it's great.

I still have no idea how to use one of
these, actually. But I do believe we

more lighting over here.

Really, the point was to engage them in
conversations.

That had to reconcile with what they had
originally stated for McDonald's to win

the prize.

We recorded these interviews with them
so the FBI could then match the

match the facts, what they originally
told McDonald's, what they're telling us

on camera.

what the FBI sort of already knew.

So that once we had the evidence showing
that, you know you didn't win this

legitimately, you've lied to the FBI,
and here's the evidence to prove it,

would be more willing to cooperate.

Can you explain the difference between
the Chapman and what the FBI did?

The FBI was merely, when the FBI took a
film crew to a winner,

that winner...

had already contacted Simon Marketing,
hence McDonald's, claiming to have been

winner. They're already saying, I did
this, and this is how I obtained

this game piece.

An individual could never claim that's
entrapment because...

They did it before the law enforcement
was involved.

Entrapment is to have law enforcement
put the idea into the person's head and

get them to do something they otherwise
wouldn't have done.

We weren't saying, say this, say that,
and say that. We were saying, how, what,

where, who.

Those are just opportunities for him to
fill in the blanks.

and tell us what he wants to tell.

Remember, just keep looking at me. And
if you mess up or you feel like you want

to say it again, we can start all over
again.

I hand gesture sometimes it gets in
there, so I'll make sure I don't do

Okay, why don't we go back to that day
that you won in New Hampshire, and can

you just sort of describe the day for
us, what you were doing in the morning

at work and then? It was a summer day.

I wasn't working. It was Sunday, as a
matter of fact.

And there wasn't a whole lot of work to
do. So, you know, browsing through

the Sunday paper, as I am wont to do.

He was fumbling through it, trying to
figure out how he won that particular

piece. In reality, a life experience
like that is...

drilled into your memory forever and
ever. Nobody wins a million dollars on a

regular basis.

I found the insert and I

found the little tear -off tab and I

got cold, very cold.

He was sweating so bad.

Like, I know at some point Amy

even said to me, every time you ask him
a question, it's like I've got to get

the towel to dot his head.

It was pouring out because he was lying
about everything.

Well, suffice it to say, I just got cold
all over.

And then did you go to the McDonald's to
say that you had won, or how did it

work? No, first, I wasn't so sure about
it.

I went to a lawyer.

I did. You know, you need to protect
yourself.

Do you remember who that was?

No, I don't.

Was the lawyer in Litchfield?

No, it was over in... You

could zoom in, because we did, zoom in
on his forehead, and you could just see

the sweat.

You want to take a little sip of water?

Yes.

I'm kind of paying attention to that a
little bit. I'm leaking.

You know, and I'd say stuff like, hey,
so nobody, like, called you up and said,

hey, we need you to be a winner or
whatever. And he'd go, God, no, I'd

that. And it just pours. The sweat would
pour.

I went to a lawyer, and he advised me
to, at all costs,

Protect my identity.

It just seemed odd to me that many of
the people I talked to did not want to

come forward, and they seemed to have
knowledge about what their legal rights

were about being anonymous or not.

Who is Buddy Fisher?

Buddy Fisher was the father of Robin
Colombo, who was married

to Jerry Colombo.

I'll never forget it. I was upstairs in
my bedroom, and my father called me.

And there wasn't many words exchanged.
He just said, I want the big one. So I

knew what it meant.

He did get one of the million -dollar
tickets, and he had never broken

a law in his entire life.

One stipulation that my grandfather
made, he says, okay, if I get this

I'm not doing a commercial, but I
remember we would be getting phone

and they would talk to my grandfather
and say, hey, we're trying to get all of

the Monopoly winners together for some
kind of reunion or something like that.

want to say it was Vegas, so he didn't
make that trip.

Now, had your wife or anyone in your
whole family ever won anything like that

before? No.

Never? Nothing.

So this was big.

Huge.

So you're the luckiest one in your
family, huh?

Yes. Yes. So have any of your kids or
grandkids played Monopoly or tried to

or anything like that? Yes, and we still
do. Oh, good. And we still do, yes.

Have any of them won any cars?

No.

I think I won a cheeseburger.

Would it surprise you to know that she
actually did do an interview to possibly

use at that reunion?

You said he did do one? I did not know
that.

Oh. Okay, yeah, I did not know that.

Hmm. Okay.

Wow.

Is that around?

You know, the greed was crazy here,
which is great for us.

One night, Jerry and I were out with our
wives to dinner, and we went to the

men's room together. That sounds
horrible, but we went to the men's room

together, and Jerry gave me a million
-dollar ticket.

And I told him, I don't want to be
involved. I really don't. I had not

anything but a $25 ,000 ticket.

I told him I didn't need the million
dollars.

I told him I was out of it. I said,
Jerry, you know what? I don't know what

did with these guys, how much you made
or anything else.

There's a time and there's a place.

Stop and everything else.

He said, well, just do something with
the ticket.

So I took the ticket and I flushed it
down the toilet.

And what was his reaction when you
flushed it down the toilet in front of

None. Zero.

He didn't have any reaction to you
flushing a million dollars down the

I didn't either. How's that?

Yeah, how's that? I didn't either. No.

I knew I was doing the right thing.

And Jerry had told me it was over and
that was it.

I'm telling you, the night I flushed
that ticket down the toilet, I thought

was over.

I thought it was over.

I swear to you, on everything holy, I
thought it was over.

If I even suspected he was taking
tickets, I would have told on him in a

heartbeat. And he knew it. I think
that's why I didn't know it. I bet

I didn't get a ticket.

After Jerry got sick with this John Bray
syndrome, there was something different

in him.

Even though he was well on the road to
mending, he could have repercussions

later on being crippled or bedridden or
dead.

So he had nothing to lose at that point.

My husband, Jerry, we got a lot of my
family members involved.

And that isn't all.

My family members that won, that was
just a little piece of the pie.

You had Al Capone with the prohibition.

You had Mike Frente with the gas.

And then now you have this, the
Monopoly.

That's really the highest three money
makers of the mob so far.

My husband picked the winners. He had
tickets.

He flew everywhere.

I think Uncle Jerry even may have got a
little jealous.

So can you spell that out? Because
Jerry, Jerry, it's kind of... Uncle

Jerome Jacobson.

And Jerry is my husband, Jerry Colombo.

Jacobson became Uncle Jerry because
that's an Italian thing.

My husband gave him up out of respect.

If your general opinion of mankind is
running kind of low this holiday season,

here's a story that might make you feel
much, much better about the human race.

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in
Memphis has received a very unusual

gift.

Do you remember who gave that funny
piece away? The St. Jude Children's

Hospital? Yeah.

That's Uncle Jerry.

Hospital officials are calling this a
gift from an angel in the true spirit of

the season.

This is a happy day. Woo -hoo!

If you're out there and you hear me, we
love you.

My brother took this little small
operation and made it huge.

Literally, it was a monopoly of scams.

The winners, they would just lie, lie,
lie.

We keep pushing. You never know when
you're going to hit a wall.

There was things that nobody knew, and I
just kept it all to myself.

I thought, I'm never going to get out of
this.

I was out of panic.

I had no other option but to take this
process through.

The money got too big.

With that comes the price.